Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Let Them Wear The Green Berets!!!
This is total B.S...
If they can't march in their green, they won't march at all.
In response to a Fire Department order prohibiting its members from wearing their customary green berets during the St. Patrick's Day Parade, hundreds of firefighters will watch from the sidelines Thursday -- clad in their traditional holiday headgear and civilian clothes, several firefighters said Wednesday.
The group will gather along the parade route at the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to "support our brothers and sisters as they march," said Lt. Eddie Boles of the 14th Battalion in the Bronx. But they will not defy orders prohibiting the berets, and they won't march without them.
"We understand the need for discipline," Boles said Wednesday during a press conference. "However this tradition, the tradition of the green berets, has deep significance for us and we wanted to express our disappointment."
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